We study target choice in the global telephony industry, focusing specifically on the creation of unique synergies between buyer and target through their dyadic relationships. We find that geographical proximity has the highest impact on acquisition likelihood, followed by technological...

In this paper we evaluate the heterogeneous effects of online copyright enforcement. We ask whether the unexpected shutdown of the popular file hosting platform Megaupload had a differential effect on box office revenues of wide-release vs. niche movies. Identification comes from a comparison of...

The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We find support for this claim by analyzing a large dataset from an online card game community, a stylized yet natural setting characterized by self-selection into an uncertain,...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in platform markets to rebuild their installed base of complementary products. Using three different datasets on the US market for video game consoles, we show that incumbents can to some extent substitute for rebuilding their new...

We run a field experiment to quantify the economic returns to data and informational externalities associated with algorithmic recommendation in the context of online news. Our results show that personalized recommendation can outperform human curation in terms of user engagement, though this...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in platform markets to rebuild their installed base of complementary products. Using three different datasets on the US market for video game consoles, we show that incumbents can to some extent substitute for rebuilding their new...

In this paper, we study the effects of a self-regulatory effort, orchestrated by the European Commission, that aims to reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third-party advertising and tracking services associated with...

Online labor markets (OLMs) are an integral part of the sharing economy. While these platforms offer huge matching efficiencies and cost benefits, managing performance in their projects is still a challenge. Taking an agency theory perspective, we study the determinants of project performance in...

Despite some advantages over traditional (offline) labor markets – such as lower search costs, better matching and improved monitoring – online labor markets (OLMs) have not taken off as initially expected. In this paper, we study the factors that limit perceived project success on OLMs....